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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Salieri cope with his insight into Mozart's talent?
(a) He composes an opera about it.
(b) He complains to one of his committees.
(c) He throws himself into work.
(d) He falls into depression.

2. Who plays the 'march of welcome' for Mozart?
(a) Von Strack.
(b) Salieri.
(c) Count Orsini-Rosenberg.
(d) The Emperor.

3. What philosophic age does Salieri refer to in his first speech for this section of the play?
(a) The Platonic Age.
(b) The Age of Englightenment
(c) The Age of Modernism.
(d) The Age of the Feuilletons.

4. How does Mozart react when the Major-Domo enters?
(a) He is annoyed.
(b) He is happy.
(c) He is embarrassed.
(d) He is excited and full of anticipation.

5. What influences Mozart to make wildly tactless utterings at Bonno's house?
(a) His arrogance.
(b) He has been taking laudanum.
(c) He has been listening to Salieri's Venticelli.
(d) Alcohol--he is drunk.

Short Answer Questions

1. What kind of work has the Emperor commissioned Mozart to write?

2. Who is the lead singer Mozart has engaged?

3. How does Salieri reward his Venticelli?

4. How old was Mozart when the Emperor last met him?

5. What animal is Constanze imitating?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Salieri hinting at when he says his servants will be 'even more surprised tomorrow'?

2. In what way is the 'calf-measuring scene' ironic?

3. What is striking about Salieri's description of the Adagio from the Serenade for Thirteen Wind Instruments (K. 361)?

4. What is important about the discussion between Von Strack, Rosenberg and Van Swieten?

5. What attitude towards the Emperor does Salieri display in the first scene of this section of the play?

6. Why do reports about Mozart unsettle Salieri?

7. In what way does Mozart manage to insult Count Orsini-Rosenberg?

8. Comment on the conflict in this library scene.

9. Account for Salieri's shout from the chair as he listens to Mozart and Constanze play their bawdy game.

10. What does Salieri do to cope with the psychic blow he has received through hearing Mozart's music?

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